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Cairo in 2015 and in 2023: The Dreadful Fates of the Egyptian Capital in J. Nasir’s Tower of Dreams and A. K. Towfik’s Utopia

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Luxurious glass skyscrapers towering over endless miserable suburbs, traffic jams, pollution, terrorist attacks, and frequent earthquakes. In a world where the inequality gap has grown wider, the West refuses Egypt credit, while its capital of 35 million residents is shaken by intense social and tectonic jolts. This is a glimpse of Cairo in 2015, according to Nasir’s Tower of Dreams (1999). Ten years later, Towfik’s Utopia presents a portrait of Cairo in 2023 that is no more uplifting. The capital is split into two spaces at war: the rich Egyptians live in a few gated residential communities, while the rest of the territory is reduced to a shanty town. In light of the current contexts, this chapter analyses these parallel representations of Cairo’s future.

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halshs-02464003 , version 1 (02-02-2020)

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Anna Madoeuf, Delphine Pagès-El karoui. Cairo in 2015 and in 2023: The Dreadful Fates of the Egyptian Capital in J. Nasir’s Tower of Dreams and A. K. Towfik’s Utopia. eds. Z. Kendal, A. Smith, G. Champion, A. Milner. Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.283-301, 2020, 978-3-030-27892-2. ⟨halshs-02464003⟩
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